Heaven Sent

Alone and afraid, the Doctor heads into the unknown for an adventure like none before...

TELEVISION

BBC ONE

FIRST BROADCAST 28 November 2015

Flip open the disc and inside you find an impeccably engineered machine, fascinating in its intricacies. Even more so when it’s set in motion. Gears interlocking and sections shifting to both hide and reveal pathways. Tick. This is the place the Doctor has been transported to. Tock. This is the script written by Steven Moffat. Tick. This is the performance given by Peter Capaldi. Tock. This is all of those things.

Heaven Sent is immaculate, harmonious Doctor Who. It’s a marvel, it’s a top 10 best-ever story, it’s… I really liked it. Inspect it in detail, with your jeweller’s eyepiece in, and the workings are incredibly beautiful. It is a circular story housed inside a circular structure with actions running clockwise, whether that’s the title character counting out the minutes from one side of the castle to the other, or pacing around and around the TARDIS console.